Chapter 586: The Temple of Nightmares

The door leaps forward, swallowing a smiling Fang Dian whole, and a polka-dotted butterfly hair rope falls in the air.

Bai Liu falls slowly from the cluster of spheres, a ball of light levitates from his body, the ball of light slowly floats away, Bai Liu is lost in thought and reaches out his hand, he sees the shiny black leather glove appear on his hand, he hears Bai six's laughter in his head.

[You have fully integrated me.]

[Now you are the new evil god].

Next, fuse the desires of derivatives from other worlds, and you will become even more powerful.

"Fusion ...... so that's it." Bai Liu lowered his eyes and looked motionlessly at this polka dotted butterfly hair string that had fallen at his feet, "Those derivatives, like me once, are your carriers, right?"

"Those derivatives also won the game, wanted to become gods, and you did make them gods as you made me gods, but soon after they merged with your consciousness, or desire, they were consumed by you."

"What you're looking for is not a new evil god, it's just a new carrier."

I can say yes, I can say no. Bai six smiled softly and replied, "I just can't find a vehicle that won't really consume me, they all sink too easily into my derived desires.

[If you can really make me disappear, I'd appreciate it.

"I will not merge the desires of those derivatives." Bai Liu lifted his head and waved his hand, countless worldlines scattered around him, he clicked on the first one and his pupils lit up with a halo of light, "I will not be your new carrier either."

"Let the game of the so-called evil gods end with me."

Bai six's voice was a little startled: [What are you doing?

Bai Liu raised his eyes, "I'm going to load all the world lines, the original archive points you set up, and kill all your derivatives before it all starts-"

"-including myself."

A silver-blue light continues to spill out of Bai Liu's body, and the threads of the world that Fang Dian had protected to the last have gathered around Bai Liu, a warm glow illuminating Bai Liu's face, which seems to have many expressions, but also seems to have no expression at all, leaving only a calmness that has already thought of an ending for itself.

Bai Liu holds out his hand and he drags up a worldline, the light of which has become mostly cloudy, hovering restlessly from side to side in Bai Liu's palm, trying to pass through Bai Liu's body and reach the other side of the door. Bai Liu drops his eyes and probes his hand into this worldline and he holds something.

[System Alert: Evil God Bai Liu loading world line reset point 001.]

[So that's it.] Bai six laughed lightly, [You wanted to become an evil god in order to obtain the initial reset points for each world line from me and gain the power to reset all world lines, I'm curious how you guessed that I hid the initial reset points in the world lines when I gave you so many archive points on the ship.

"Because ......" Bai Liu looked up at the world line, "they are all telling me not to be afraid of parting, that we will meet again eventually."

"Then there must exist something, something to start over with."

"And this is a game, and the only thing the game can start over with is a reset."

[Indeed. Bai six said with amusement, [But Bai Liu, think about it, a reset does allow the game to begin again, as well as a new convergence of their shattered souls from this universe].

[But one's memory does not reset.]

[After you reset, they are stripped of their player status again and are just a bunch of NPCs, so they won't remember you as a player anymore, any trace of your existence, anyone else's memory of you, will disappear with you, never to be found again].

[- including their feelings for you].

[And isn't that what you want most now? After the reset, the friendship of Mu Sicheng, Muke, Tang Erda, Liu Jiayi, the affection of Fang Dian and Lu Yizhan, and even the love of Tavel will all be gone, and you will even be considered an enemy because of your identity as an evil god.

[Are you going to guard them alone with 658 memories that no one cares about after they've been reset?

[That's not very fair.]

The muddy Worldline 001 enveloped Bai Liu and he slowly dropped to the ground, a scene where Worldline 001 began its showdown, opposite him were the Temple's ongoing confrontation between the Massive Cross Judgement Army and Bai six .

Bai Liu saw the youthful Lu Yizhan and Fang Dian who embraced him, he stood still for a moment watching the scene, soon he was discovered and the group looked in dismay at the second Bai Liu who appeared in the temple, Lu Yizhan and Fang Dian quickly drew their heavy swords and aimed at him with hostility in their eyes: "Who are you? "Who are you?"

[You see, human emotions are so fragile.]

[If they don't remember you, they won't have feelings for you].

Bai six said with a smile.

"But I remember." Bai Liu raised his eyes, "I won't forget."

Bai Liu looked at the Bai six who was in the process of agreeing a contract with Fang Dian, drew his gun and pointed it at him, his tone calm and unruffled: "I will never forget it."

"It is these things that have transformed me from a derivative of you, to Bai Liu."

[You're a madman.] Bai six's voice took on a laughing tone, [Is this how you came up with the idea to kill me? Make yourself my final carrier, make sure I don't have the ability to create new carriers, and then kill all of them, and while it's true that I won't exist anymore, you'll cease to exist yourself.

"Then cease to exist." Bai Liu lowered his eyes as he did not look behind him at the Heretic Authority that had become noisy and astonished, "I do not like a world where gods exist."

Bai Liu pulled the trigger, and the moment the bullet passed through Bai six, Bai Liu's body leaned back and shook violently as if he had been hit.

His shoulders were cracked and Fang Dian and Lu Yizhan looked on in dismay at the evil god who had slain him and wanted to ask something, but Bai Liu paddled out the door, opened it and turned away.

The next second, the world flickered into darkness and shut down.

[System Alert: Worldline 001 is erasing player Bai six's game trace and is resetting.]

......

[System Alert: Evil God Bai Liu Loading World Line Reset Point 006]

The moment fourteen-year-old Bai six was about to extend his hand to trade with Wu Ruishu, Bai Liu icily extended his hand and flung out his playing cards, sending Bai six's right hand flying.

At the same time, Bai Liu's right hand began to shatter and the statue of Wu Ruishu in the temple began to awaken.

Bai Liu watches Lu Yizhan shakily patting Wu Ruishu's bewildered face, drops his eyes and turns away.

[System Alert: Worldline 002 is erasing player Bai six's game trace and is resetting.]

......

[System Alert: Evil God Bai Liu loading 0317 world line reset archive point]

Bai Liu was at the window when Bai six opened his mouth and asked to play a game of truth or dare with Lu Yizhan, and the moment he pulled out his gun at Cen Buming, Bai Liu also pulled out his gun and aimed it at Bai six who was smiling at the game in the interrogation room inside.

At the same time, the records of Cen Buming's file were silently erased from the files of the Heretics Administration.

Bai Liu The chaps spread to the back.

[System Alert: World Line 0317 is erasing player Bai six's game trace and is resetting.

......

[System Alert: Evil God Bai Liu Loading 0369 World Line Reset Archive Point]

On the league field, as Daniel went berserk and shot Su Yang, Bai Liu pulled out his whip, knocking Daniel's gun away and pulling out his soul-crushing gun at the same time, aiming it at the Bai six next to him.

The game ended early with Tang Erda, white as a sheet, embracing Su Yang.

Bai Liu's shattering spread to his thighs and arms, and Tang Erda's record in the Heretics Authority disappeared.

[System Alert: World Line 0369 is erasing player Bai six's game trace and is resetting.]

......

[System Alert: Evil God Bai Liu loading 0658 world line reset archive point]

Bai Liu comes to the orphanage where he was ten years ago, and he meets himself at the age of fourteen before he met Xie Ta, eating alone, reading alone, and keeping the church alone.

[Are you really going to kill him? Bai six asked with a soft smile in Bai Liu's brain, [Those Bai six were indeed bad derivatives that smuggled in a lot of heretics that polluted the world before.

[But this one in front of you, you should know better than anyone.]

[Just an ordinary human child].

Bai Liu stood at the back of the church, his eyes downcast as he watched this child sitting alone in the first row of the church reading a book by himself for a long time. Fourteen-year-old Bai Liu was reading the storybook of the long, thin ghostly figure, reading it intently, but there was no one next to him, only bits of green shade falling on his writing through the church windows in a kind of hazy interplay.

As if aware of the presence of someone, the fourteen year old Bai Liu turned his head and he saw Bai Liu, who raised his gun and pointed it at the other man.

How would a fourteen-year-old behave when faced with someone who wants to kill him for no reason?

Bai Liu can no longer recall, he only vaguely remembers imagining that someone would come and kill him and then he would ......

The little Bai Liu in front of him looked at him quietly for a moment, then closed his eyes.

"Are you here to kill me as a monster?"

"Then you kill it."

...... themselves would accept someone killing themselves.

Because he was a monster, it was only natural that he should be killed, that he should never have existed in a world without his own kind, that's what everyone around him told him at the age of fourteen, and that's what he took for granted.

No one cared for him, no one understood him, no one ...... loved him.

Bai Liu placed the gun on the church table, he sat down next to little Bai six, opened the first page of the storybook, lowered his eyes and whispered, "I'll finish this book with you."

"I'll kill you after I see it."

Little Bai Liu dutifully sat over, and after a pause he stole a glance at Bai Liu sitting next to him and whispered, "Can you watch it twice before you kill me?"

"I really enjoyed the book."

Bai Liu was quiet for a moment: "Yes."

He turned his head sideways and looked calmly at little Bai Liu who had pushed the book his way to share it with him and thought - in the next ten years, there will be many people who will come to you and read with you.

They love you and will cook you delicious food, play the most dangerous and scary games with you, huddle with you in a cramped house to keep warm and give you every birthday, and you will spend the long winter days in the middle of a steaming hot pot like the beautiful families in your most hated fairy tale books, and you will never be alone again.

But sorry.

I'm going to take them out of your [future], now.

As the storybook turned to the last page for the second time, Bai Liu drew his gun and pointed it at little Bai Liu, whose body stiffened and trembled as he closed his eyes, then Bai Liu lowered his eyes as he slowly turned the gun upside down and pointed it at his head, his voice soft and calm: "He was indeed not wrong."

"The person who did the wrong thing and shouldn't exist is me."

"Bang-!"

Gunshots rang out.

[System Alert: World Line 0658 is erasing player Bai Liu's game trace and is resetting.

All world lines are reset, and Bai Liu's shell is like a tree that withers for a moment. In just a few moments, his shell dissipates into a field of fallen leaves, and he becomes a floating soul, sinking ever downward, downward.

He sank into the silvery blue of space, descending slowly through the deep sea of space, descending again, a halo of light illuminated Bai Liu's face, and he opened his eyes in disorientation as he saw the system backstage ships suspended in the middle of the universe, and the no longer orbiting backstage ships, all resetting, once again to pure white 658 world lines.

[My carrier is your soul. Bai Liu's laughter rang out again, [As long as your soul is not destroyed, I will always exist.

[Have you the courage to destroy your own soul and let you disappear with me?

[But if you destroy your soul, there will be no one left to guard the door to protect these freshly reset world lines from contamination].

Bai Liu turned his head and he looked into the deepest part of the universe at an ancient carved door that was still open, a steady stream of silvery-blue dust spilling out of that door, trying to contaminate the lines of the world after those resets. Bai Liu floated down and he gripped the pull ring of the carved door and took a deep breath, trying to pull the door tight.

...... is just a little closer, and as soon as he pulls it tight, this game is over.

[...... How did I get such a stubborn derivative as you, there is no way to close this door.]] Bai six spoke with a helplessness and a sigh, [Like the door of one's desires, it never closes for a moment and needs to be guarded at all times to keep heretics and monsters from overflowing.]]

[You have crushed all the carriers and cannot absorb the power of desire. With your current energy, there is no way to close the door, and forcing it shut will only break your own soul.]

Bai Liu slammed the door with all his might and his soul became deflated as a result, his voice hoarse: "...... There are ways you can close it forever."

"Didn't you tell me that in the witch's copy?"

"[The moment the brave and suffering soul leaves the body, it becomes a jewel, a jewel that fills the cracks of desire]."

"Now my soul, is it not just such a thing, this door, is it not just the seam of desire?"

Bai six lapsed into silence, and after a long interval, whispered: [Just a theoretical approach].

[If you do that, you really don't exist in the world at all, Bai Liu.

[Your soul will become the key that closes this door, and exist on it forever, but you have consciousness, memory, and feelings, and you will become the living mass of gold in the land of gold, the mass that fills the hourglass with just ten years of suffering, and you, a soul that has been turned into a key, and you will so keep suffering with desire for millions, millions, and billions of years- -]

[- It's really not fair to you just to save the humans who have given you a modicum of affection].

[It's not a fair deal.]

"But feelings are not something that can be traded fairly." Bai Liu laughed very softly as he reached out to touch the door, a halo of light shifting in his eyes, "I think it's worth it enough."

At the moment Bai Liu's hand touched the door's handle, another hand also gripped Bai Liu's. Bai Liu stopped moving as if he had been electrocuted and looked at the hand in a daze before someone hugged him tightly from behind.

"I'm sorry." Xie Ta embraced Bai Liu's soul as he shed tears, "I'm too late."

"I'm sorry." Xie Ta repeated those three words very softly, "I'm sorry I remembered too late, I was too stupid to make you wait too long."

He turned back from the past and finally remembered everything, but the moment he saw Bai Liu's soul, he knew that things were irreversible.

Bai Liu has become the new evil god.

"It's too late to say you're sorry." Bai Liu let go of his hand, he tilted his head back, embraced Xie Ta, closed his eyes and said very softly, "I'm leaving you."

"No!" For the first time, fear was visible on Xie Ta's ever-cloudy face, and he couldn't stop the tears from falling, suspended in the air as droplets of water.

Bai Liu smiled, his forehead pressed against Xie Ta's, stroking away the tears on his face, his tone soft: "You're scared too, Xie Ta."

"Then how come you didn't know I'd be scared too when you left me in the first place?"

Xie Ta lifted her head, tears dripping from her jaw, her voice trembling softly, "I'll stay with you."

"I'll keep the door with you."

"You can't keep me company." Bai Liu curled his mouth very shallowly, "I don't want you to stay with me."

"I want you to wait for me."

"I want to torture you, I want you to know how painful it was for me to wait for you in the first place, I want you to know that I am somewhere deep in this universe, but you cannot come to see me, I want you to live a happy life but be unhappy when you think of me."

"-I will collect pain from your hands like an evil god."

"I have not charged anyone with pain since I became this evil god, and you who offer me pain are my only devotee."

"God will grant any wish of the sole believer."

Bai Liu drops his eyelashes very gently, he closes his eyes and kisses Xie Ta who embraces him in tears, unwilling to let him go.

"So pray devoutly."

Bai Liu fell into the door, his eyelids drooping and his soul attaching itself to the gap in the door: the

"...... We will meet again eventually."

The door closed and a violent silver-blue glow erupted from the other end of the door.

[System Alert: Evil God is changing, door double-sided world is about to be reset ...... reset failed ...... reset again ...... detected door is closed, can't reset ......]

[Warning! Warning! The door has been blocked, the system is unable to take energy from the other end of the door, low on energy and about to shut down ......]

[Game system off.]